January 24, 1973 (12 pages)

Wed., Jan. 24,1973 The Nevada County Nugget 5 SERVING THE-NEVADA COUNTY COMMUNITIES OF NEVADA CITY. GRASS VALLEY, RE OMEGA. FRENCH CORRAL, ROUGH AND READY, GRANITEVILLE, NORTH SAN JUAN, CEDAR RIDGE, UNION HILL, PEARDALE, SUMMIT CITY, WALLOUPA, GOUGE EYE, L SELBY FLAT, GRIZZLY HILL, GOLD FLAT, SOGGSVILLE, GOLD BAR. LOWELL HILL, QUAKER HILL, WILLOW VALLEY, NEWTOWN, INDIAN FLAT, BRIDGEPORT, BIRCHVI D DOG, YOU BET. TOWN TALK. GLENBROOK, LITTLE YORK, C NORTH BLOOMFIELD, HUMBUG, RELIEF HILL, WASHINGTON BLUE. TENT, LaBARR IME KILN, CHICAGO PARK, WOLF. CHRISTMAS HILL, LIBERTY HIL on BOURBON HILL, SCOTCH HILL, NORTH COLUMBIA, COLUMBIA HIL LLE, MOORE’S FLAT, ORLEANS FLAT, REMINGTON HILL, ANTHONY —: HEROKEE, SWEETLAND, ALPHA, L, SAILOR FLAT, LAKE CIry, L, BRANDY FLAT, SEBASTOPOL, HOUSE, DELIRIUM TREMENS. Volume 27, No. 3 Nevada. City, Nevada County, California, Thursday, January 15; 1953 Price Five Cents The Towns That Were This is another chapter in a series of sketches of the once rip. snorting Nevada County communities which flamed brilliantly in pioneer times and then faded into oblivion or subdued into: peaceful communities. s Rough and Ready which once seceded from the Union because the townsmen objected to a damned Yankee : No writer, im his right mind, would dare to list Rough and Ready among the ‘Towns That Were.” The good folks of Rough and Ready, who have more civic pride to the square inch than residents of other communities have to the square yard, would rise up in noisy protest. : They would point out, and rightly. that Rough and Ready is to be rated among “The Towns That Are.” They would admit, however, that the once-boisterous days are gone and the most riotous events held in recent years, are the square dances in the I. O. O. F. Hall. . But there was a day when Rough and Ready lived up to its name in a large and noisy manner. : Old records of the 1850’s reveal that the miners of Grass Valley, four miles to the East, frequently. journeyed to Rough and Reedy, where convivial pleasures (frequently punctuated by gunfire) were somewhate more carefree than in Grass Valley where a tough town marshall frowned on all forms of manslaughter. Bret Harte, who more than any other interpreter of Gold Rush Days. was able to capture the spirit and action of the period, gave the town a place in literary history in his ‘Millionaires of Rough and Ready.” i Rough and Ready was given its name by a company of mers axis on! A Gg WH 1 AE EE > are 2 << SUC hs ya This is the old Fippin Blacksmith shop, Rough and Ready. Lotta Crabtree once danced on its anvil. For more of this picturesque community. look to your right. (Drawing by George Mathis) 7 OPENING SESSION 1953 LEGISLATURE : By who settled there in the fall of 1849. Captain A. A. Townsen SS hee. John A. MacDonald leader of the company, had served under General Zachary Taylor who had won the monicker of “Old Rough and Ready” during the Mexican wars. The company crossed the Sierras via the Truckee Emigrant Route and set up a camp on Deer Creek near the mputh of Slate Creek on September 9, 1849. Members of the group panned the creek bed with only indifferent’success : One of their number, however, while foraging for camp meat at nearby Randolph Flat, discovered several-pieces of gcld exposed on the bedrock.He told his friends and the company moved in. Efforts to keep the discovery a secret failed. The tough lads from Randolph Flat objected strenuously. Threats were hurled and guns were drawn the two groups moved info the rich ravine. A cool headed arbife® however was able to prevent bloodshed and he ravine was divided between the disputing factions. Meanwhile Captain Townsend caught the first wagon train eastward. -{ the. He hurriedly signed another company of forty men to work for prevailing wages for one year. With his new recruits he caught . another wagon train westward. . But when the Captain and his work crew arrived in Rough . and Ready they found things had changed. More than 500 miners . were gouging the ravines and gulches on all sides. . The captain was in a bad spot. He had forty workers on his . hands. He was pledged to pay them wages but he had nothing for . them to do. He solved his problem by hiring.them out to claim holders. Many of the Townsend crew immediately went AWOL without even thanking the good Captain for paying their passage to the gold country. Meanwhile James S. Dunleavy, sometimes known as the Rev.erend Dunleavy, had arrived in Rough and Ready to build the first frame house and set up the first saloon at which he sold such elixers as Forty Rod, Old Magnolia, and Oh Be Joyful, to the miners who were getting pretty sick of drinking water. Historians say that Dunleavy came west ‘in 1847 and settled in San Francisco to preach the Gospel. He became a civic leader there and was elected to the city council in balloting. called by John C. Fremont. It seems, however, that the gentleman of the cloth backslid somewhat. The night of the election he became roaring drunk. He abandoned his civic post and managed to make a living in vartous ways until he arrived in Rough and Ready to set up his saloon and bowling alley—incidentally the first bowling alley in Nevada Dunleavy is credited by Robert Welles Ritchie in his “Hell Roarin’ Forty-Niners” with being the parson who officiated at a celebrated funeral. According to the Ritchie tale Rev. Dunleavy delivered a long prayer while the mourners stood around the open grave. One of them noticed something shiny in the newly turned earth. It was a nugget. When the minister closed his prayer and opened his eyes, the mourners were all pacing off claims in all perts of the cemetery. The incident may have occurred but it can be noted that similar incidents have been reported in four ‘ether Mother Lode comwrunities. : But Rough and Ready received its greatest notoriety when it . seceded from the Union in April of 1850. After a sharp Yankee trader had bilkéd a claim holder out of a goodly amount of. gold it was nointed out bv some that he was an American citizen and (Note: Mr. Allan W. Hahn and I attended the opening session of sembyman from Los _ Angeles. The occasion is generally marked by a large number of visitors, ineluding relatives and friends of the legislators, many of whom sit with the legislators at their regular seats. This year, as two years ago, we were fortunate enough to be the first to be received into the. Governor's office immediately following his message to the joint session of Senate and Assembly. These . meetings have been made especially pleasant because of the warm friendliness: of the Governor and his unhurried manner.) The opening session of the California. Legislature was an interesting study in contrasts. Arriving at the capitol and convers (Continued on Page 8) NEVADA CITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH HONORS BEN HALL At their annual business meeting and election the rector and members of the congregation at Trinity bestowed an _ unusual honor on Benjamin Hall, senior warden of Trinity for many years. Since Mr. Hall felt un. able to accept the responsibility of the office for another year, the congregation voted unanimously to place him on the vestry as a permanent and voting member, an action unprecedented in this parish. Following this action the rector, the Rev. Max Christensen, bestowed the title of Senior Warden Emeritus on Mr. Hall, and in so doing reviewed the loyal and excellent contribution to the life of the church that Mr. Hall has made. At the election of the vestry for 1953, which followed, the following men were named: Admiral Ray,. John Filler, Walter Koerber, Thos. Reynolds, Charles Zwingman and Lee Michell. Admiral Ray was appointed to the office of Senior Warden by the rector. Reports from. the various organizations were heard, all of which indicated a healthy parlegislature as the guest : Mr. Hanne SS her eee es} ish. An excellent, dinner was. SQUARE DANCERS, FOLK DANCERS, JUST PLAIN DANCERS, BIG DOINGS FEBRUARY 1 Sunday, February Ist, the Veterans Memorial building in Grass Valley will’be shaking. The reason? e second annual Square and Folk Dance Festival, featuring six local dance groups plus about 10 or 12 of the finest callers in northern California. — All for the benefit of the March of Dimes polio campaign. Festivities will Start at 2 pm and carry through until 10 pm. In the meantime, a bountiful dinner will be served by the Gold Quartz Peace Officers’ Association, with Deputy Sheriff Frank Gallino serving as chef. Sheriff Wayne Brown will act as chief tester of his deputy’s cooking. Price of the dinner is $1.00 for adults and 50c for kids. Admission to the dance activities is free. You may either come as a spectator or dancer. The Union Hill 4-H club will operate a candy and soft drink concession. The dance groups who have already signified their intention to perform include the Rough and Ready Senior Square Dancers, the Goldancers, the Nuggeteers, the Peardale Smoothies, ‘the Rough and Ready Mt. Rose Junior group, and the Sierra Smoothies. One other group, the Washington Loggers, hope they can join in, too. Officials planning the event say there is a good possibility the folks will be asked far donations for the March of Dimes; the fun, in addition to the worthy cause, makes it one of the outstanding social events of the 1953 season, EMPTY JAGUAR GOES OVER CLIFF; RUINED One of the world’s most expensive motor cars, a British Jaguar, went tumbling over a cliff last Sunday afternoon on a steep incline just above Edwards Crossing on the North Bloomfield road. Fortunately it was empty. Its owners, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Scott of Auburn, had parked the car in order to enjoy the magnificent panorama view. For some reason their emergency brake slipped and the sleek yellow ve-" hicle went over the 400-foot cliff. The car was equipped with a MELTON INSTALLED HAS: 1953~-PRESIDENT. CHAMBER COMMERCE “We inheriting a fine organizgtion built by Mosco Smart and his board of directors,” said O. J. “Dutch” Melton upon assuming the post of president of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night. About 80 persons, including most of the merchants on Broad street, county.and city officials, were present*at the dinner at the Old Brewery Inn. Everybody was there, in fact, but Snowshoe Thompson, the giant snow .man. Other officers installed included Dick Worth as vice president, and Rubye Pallos, William Briggs, George Mathis;-C. A. Shirley, Larry Mayworm, H. L. Childers, Frank Duffy, and retiring president Smart serving as 1953 directors. Robert Paine acted as Installing Officer, and did a bully job, combining humor with serious thought. . He said that Dutch Melton symbolized Nevada’ City; he came here seven years ago, said Paine, and “immediately became one of us.” : Melton stated that the new directors had named Al Trivelpiece as public relations director, sutceeding Jim Kelly; H. F. Sofge’ as treasurer and Gwen Anderson as secretary. The meeting opened with a summary of last year’s work by retiring president Mosco Smart. He cited the efforts made to improve Highway 20, the 4th of July celebration, the formation of the Chambermaids and establishment of the position of public relations director as steps taken by his regime. Membership, he said, was almost doubled during the year while the Chamber’s financial position is excellent. . He warmly. thanked the city and oounty. officials for their . : 7 . cooperation’ during the year. President Melton later outlined the Chamber’s’ plans for 1953. There will be increased effort to aftract. people to visit Nevada City and then to keep them here, he said. The Chamber § also interested, he continued, in bringing new businéss : — NOW HEAR THIS a weekly column by HCITY MANAGER RA on municipal affairs This week the city crew is concentrating on water services. If your water pressure is low now and you have not reported the fact before, we will be glad fj to check pressure and volume for you. The city is responsible only for the condition of the pipe from the water main to the ‘cut-off valve, usually located: just inside the property line. This we will gladly’ renew or repair if it is clogged. Obviously, if the piping on the property is old the remedy probably lies with, the owner. New ‘piped-in television will be available in Nevada City in about six months. The syste is expected to provide not only dependable reception on all channels, including UHF when available, but will go far toward reducing the hazard of unsightly television antennae. The NID water“ contract for water increases the cost from 43c a miner's inch to 47c. The increased cost will not be felt until the beginning of the irrigation season. The new rate is the — as that charged Grass Valey. ° The flow at the sewage disposal plant was measured at 600,000 gallons a day during the recent rains. \ It is evident that storm water system somewhere. This unwanted water interféres with the efficient operation of the plant and must be eliminated Any information as to the probable location of the entry of this water would be greatly appreciated and simplify the investigation’ by the city. For this week and next the firemen of the Nevada City and Grass Valley fire departments are attending a fire-fighting school conducted by Carl J. Kistle, instructor of fire training of the Bureau of Trade and Industrial Education, State Department:of Education. The City Council voted on Monday night to re-activate the city. planning-commission. Aa active planning commission is' a sign of a progressive comm and is a necessity for orderly growth. There is no greater contribution a citizen can make to community welfare than service on this commission. TAXPAYERS TO SEND RESOLUTION TO GOVERNOR WARREN . ~The.Nevada County Taxpayers Association will forward a lution to Governor Earl Warren and to representatives of this district in the State Legislature opposing legislation designed to increase any benefit or welfare payments now made from Stete funds or the creation of any new benefit payments. > The resolution further opposes any state project that cannot be taxes and states that desirable undertakings, such as road improvement, should be financed by economy rather than increased taxation. Permanent By-Laws for the organization. were adopted at last’ night’s meeting at Hennepey sehool in Grass Valley.made for 17 permanent who will be representative of the county. Forrest Airington, tementering the sewer _ financed without an increase in Twenty-two nominations were ;

Wed., Jan. 24,1973 The Nevada County Nugget 5 SERVING THE-NEVADA COUNTY COMMUNITIES OF NEVADA CITY. GRASS VALLEY, RE OMEGA. FRENCH CORRAL, ROUGH AND READY, GRANITEVILLE, NORTH SAN JUAN, CEDAR RIDGE, UNION HILL, PEARDALE, SUMMIT CITY, WALLOUPA, GOUGE EYE, L SELBY FLAT, GRIZZLY HILL, GOLD FLAT, SOGGSVILLE, GOLD BAR. LOWELL HILL, QUAKER HILL, WILLOW VALLEY, NEWTOWN, INDIAN FLAT, BRIDGEPORT, BIRCHVI D DOG, YOU BET. TOWN TALK. GLENBROOK, LITTLE YORK, C NORTH BLOOMFIELD, HUMBUG, RELIEF HILL, WASHINGTON BLUE. TENT, LaBARR IME KILN, CHICAGO PARK, WOLF. CHRISTMAS HILL, LIBERTY HIL on BOURBON HILL, SCOTCH HILL, NORTH COLUMBIA, COLUMBIA HIL LLE, MOORE’S FLAT, ORLEANS FLAT, REMINGTON HILL, ANTHONY —: HEROKEE, SWEETLAND, ALPHA, L, SAILOR FLAT, LAKE CIry, L, BRANDY FLAT, SEBASTOPOL, HOUSE, DELIRIUM TREMENS. Volume 27, No. 3 Nevada. City, Nevada County, California, Thursday, January 15; 1953 Price Five Cents The Towns That Were This is another chapter in a series of sketches of the once rip. snorting Nevada County communities which flamed brilliantly in pioneer times and then faded into oblivion or subdued into: peaceful communities. s Rough and Ready which once seceded from the Union because the townsmen objected to a damned Yankee : No writer, im his right mind, would dare to list Rough and Ready among the ‘Towns That Were.” The good folks of Rough and Ready, who have more civic pride to the square inch than residents of other communities have to the square yard, would rise up in noisy protest. : They would point out, and rightly. that Rough and Ready is to be rated among “The Towns That Are.” They would admit, however, that the once-boisterous days are gone and the most riotous events held in recent years, are the square dances in the I. O. O. F. Hall. . But there was a day when Rough and Ready lived up to its name in a large and noisy manner. : Old records of the 1850’s reveal that the miners of Grass Valley, four miles to the East, frequently. journeyed to Rough and Reedy, where convivial pleasures (frequently punctuated by gunfire) were somewhate more carefree than in Grass Valley where a tough town marshall frowned on all forms of manslaughter. Bret Harte, who more than any other interpreter of Gold Rush Days. was able to capture the spirit and action of the period, gave the town a place in literary history in his ‘Millionaires of Rough and Ready.” i Rough and Ready was given its name by a company of mers axis on! A Gg WH 1 AE EE > are 2 << SUC hs ya This is the old Fippin Blacksmith shop, Rough and Ready. Lotta Crabtree once danced on its anvil. For more of this picturesque community. look to your right. (Drawing by George Mathis) 7 OPENING SESSION 1953 LEGISLATURE : By who settled there in the fall of 1849. Captain A. A. Townsen SS hee. John A. MacDonald leader of the company, had served under General Zachary Taylor who had won the monicker of “Old Rough and Ready” during the Mexican wars. The company crossed the Sierras via the Truckee Emigrant Route and set up a camp on Deer Creek near the mputh of Slate Creek on September 9, 1849. Members of the group panned the creek bed with only indifferent’success : One of their number, however, while foraging for camp meat at nearby Randolph Flat, discovered several-pieces of gcld exposed on the bedrock.He told his friends and the company moved in. Efforts to keep the discovery a secret failed. The tough lads from Randolph Flat objected strenuously. Threats were hurled and guns were drawn the two groups moved info the rich ravine. A cool headed arbife® however was able to prevent bloodshed and he ravine was divided between the disputing factions. Meanwhile Captain Townsend caught the first wagon train eastward. -{ the. He hurriedly signed another company of forty men to work for prevailing wages for one year. With his new recruits he caught . another wagon train westward. . But when the Captain and his work crew arrived in Rough . and Ready they found things had changed. More than 500 miners . were gouging the ravines and gulches on all sides. . The captain was in a bad spot. He had forty workers on his . hands. He was pledged to pay them wages but he had nothing for . them to do. He solved his problem by hiring.them out to claim holders. Many of the Townsend crew immediately went AWOL without even thanking the good Captain for paying their passage to the gold country. Meanwhile James S. Dunleavy, sometimes known as the Rev.erend Dunleavy, had arrived in Rough and Ready to build the first frame house and set up the first saloon at which he sold such elixers as Forty Rod, Old Magnolia, and Oh Be Joyful, to the miners who were getting pretty sick of drinking water. Historians say that Dunleavy came west ‘in 1847 and settled in San Francisco to preach the Gospel. He became a civic leader there and was elected to the city council in balloting. called by John C. Fremont. It seems, however, that the gentleman of the cloth backslid somewhat. The night of the election he became roaring drunk. He abandoned his civic post and managed to make a living in vartous ways until he arrived in Rough and Ready to set up his saloon and bowling alley—incidentally the first bowling alley in Nevada Dunleavy is credited by Robert Welles Ritchie in his “Hell Roarin’ Forty-Niners” with being the parson who officiated at a celebrated funeral. According to the Ritchie tale Rev. Dunleavy delivered a long prayer while the mourners stood around the open grave. One of them noticed something shiny in the newly turned earth. It was a nugget. When the minister closed his prayer and opened his eyes, the mourners were all pacing off claims in all perts of the cemetery. The incident may have occurred but it can be noted that similar incidents have been reported in four ‘ether Mother Lode comwrunities. : But Rough and Ready received its greatest notoriety when it . seceded from the Union in April of 1850. After a sharp Yankee trader had bilkéd a claim holder out of a goodly amount of. gold it was nointed out bv some that he was an American citizen and (Note: Mr. Allan W. Hahn and I attended the opening session of sembyman from Los _ Angeles. The occasion is generally marked by a large number of visitors, ineluding relatives and friends of the legislators, many of whom sit with the legislators at their regular seats. This year, as two years ago, we were fortunate enough to be the first to be received into the. Governor's office immediately following his message to the joint session of Senate and Assembly. These . meetings have been made especially pleasant because of the warm friendliness: of the Governor and his unhurried manner.) The opening session of the California. Legislature was an interesting study in contrasts. Arriving at the capitol and convers (Continued on Page 8) NEVADA CITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH HONORS BEN HALL At their annual business meeting and election the rector and members of the congregation at Trinity bestowed an _ unusual honor on Benjamin Hall, senior warden of Trinity for many years. Since Mr. Hall felt un. able to accept the responsibility of the office for another year, the congregation voted unanimously to place him on the vestry as a permanent and voting member, an action unprecedented in this parish. Following this action the rector, the Rev. Max Christensen, bestowed the title of Senior Warden Emeritus on Mr. Hall, and in so doing reviewed the loyal and excellent contribution to the life of the church that Mr. Hall has made. At the election of the vestry for 1953, which followed, the following men were named: Admiral Ray,. John Filler, Walter Koerber, Thos. Reynolds, Charles Zwingman and Lee Michell. Admiral Ray was appointed to the office of Senior Warden by the rector. Reports from. the various organizations were heard, all of which indicated a healthy parlegislature as the guest : Mr. Hanne SS her eee es} ish. An excellent, dinner was. SQUARE DANCERS, FOLK DANCERS, JUST PLAIN DANCERS, BIG DOINGS FEBRUARY 1 Sunday, February Ist, the Veterans Memorial building in Grass Valley will’be shaking. The reason? e second annual Square and Folk Dance Festival, featuring six local dance groups plus about 10 or 12 of the finest callers in northern California. — All for the benefit of the March of Dimes polio campaign. Festivities will Start at 2 pm and carry through until 10 pm.

In the meantime, a bountiful dinner will be served by the Gold Quartz Peace Officers’ Association, with Deputy Sheriff Frank Gallino serving as chef. Sheriff Wayne Brown will act as chief tester of his deputy’s cooking. Price of the dinner is $1.00 for adults and 50c for kids. Admission to the dance activities is free. You may either come as a spectator or dancer. The Union Hill 4-H club will operate a candy and soft drink concession. The dance groups who have already signified their intention to perform include the Rough and Ready Senior Square Dancers, the Goldancers, the Nuggeteers, the Peardale Smoothies, ‘the Rough and Ready Mt. Rose Junior group, and the Sierra Smoothies. One other group, the Washington Loggers, hope they can join in, too. Officials planning the event say there is a good possibility the folks will be asked far donations for the March of Dimes; the fun, in addition to the worthy cause, makes it one of the outstanding social events of the 1953 season, EMPTY JAGUAR GOES OVER CLIFF; RUINED One of the world’s most expensive motor cars, a British Jaguar, went tumbling over a cliff last Sunday afternoon on a steep incline just above Edwards Crossing on the North Bloomfield road. Fortunately it was empty. Its owners, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Scott of Auburn, had parked the car in order to enjoy the magnificent panorama view. For some reason their emergency brake slipped and the sleek yellow ve-" hicle went over the 400-foot cliff. The car was equipped with a MELTON INSTALLED HAS: 1953~-PRESIDENT. CHAMBER COMMERCE “We inheriting a fine organizgtion built by Mosco Smart and his board of directors,” said O. J. “Dutch” Melton upon assuming the post of president of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night. About 80 persons, including most of the merchants on Broad street, county.and city officials, were present*at the dinner at the Old Brewery Inn. Everybody was there, in fact, but Snowshoe Thompson, the giant snow .man. Other officers installed included Dick Worth as vice president, and Rubye Pallos, William Briggs, George Mathis;-C. A. Shirley, Larry Mayworm, H. L. Childers, Frank Duffy, and retiring president Smart serving as 1953 directors. Robert Paine acted as Installing Officer, and did a bully job, combining humor with serious thought. . He said that Dutch Melton symbolized Nevada’ City; he came here seven years ago, said Paine, and “immediately became one of us.” : Melton stated that the new directors had named Al Trivelpiece as public relations director, sutceeding Jim Kelly; H. F. Sofge’ as treasurer and Gwen Anderson as secretary. The meeting opened with a summary of last year’s work by retiring president Mosco Smart. He cited the efforts made to improve Highway 20, the 4th of July celebration, the formation of the Chambermaids and establishment of the position of public relations director as steps taken by his regime. Membership, he said, was almost doubled during the year while the Chamber’s financial position is excellent. . He warmly. thanked the city and oounty. officials for their . : 7 . cooperation’ during the year. President Melton later outlined the Chamber’s’ plans for 1953. There will be increased effort to aftract. people to visit Nevada City and then to keep them here, he said. The Chamber § also interested, he continued, in bringing new businéss : — NOW HEAR THIS a weekly column by HCITY MANAGER RA on municipal affairs This week the city crew is concentrating on water services. If your water pressure is low now and you have not reported the fact before, we will be glad fj to check pressure and volume for you. The city is responsible only for the condition of the pipe from the water main to the ‘cut-off valve, usually located: just inside the property line. This we will gladly’ renew or repair if it is clogged. Obviously, if the piping on the property is old the remedy probably lies with, the owner. New ‘piped-in television will be available in Nevada City in about six months. The syste is expected to provide not only dependable reception on all channels, including UHF when available, but will go far toward reducing the hazard of unsightly television antennae. The NID water“ contract for water increases the cost from 43c a miner's inch to 47c. The increased cost will not be felt until the beginning of the irrigation season. The new rate is the — as that charged Grass Valey. ° The flow at the sewage disposal plant was measured at 600,000 gallons a day during the recent rains. \ It is evident that storm water system somewhere. This unwanted water interféres with the efficient operation of the plant and must be eliminated Any information as to the probable location of the entry of this water would be greatly appreciated and simplify the investigation’ by the city. For this week and next the firemen of the Nevada City and Grass Valley fire departments are attending a fire-fighting school conducted by Carl J. Kistle, instructor of fire training of the Bureau of Trade and Industrial Education, State Department:of Education. The City Council voted on Monday night to re-activate the city. planning-commission. Aa active planning commission is' a sign of a progressive comm and is a necessity for orderly growth. There is no greater contribution a citizen can make to community welfare than service on this commission. TAXPAYERS TO SEND RESOLUTION TO GOVERNOR WARREN . ~The.Nevada County Taxpayers Association will forward a lution to Governor Earl Warren and to representatives of this district in the State Legislature opposing legislation designed to increase any benefit or welfare payments now made from Stete funds or the creation of any new benefit payments. > The resolution further opposes any state project that cannot be taxes and states that desirable undertakings, such as road improvement, should be financed by economy rather than increased taxation. Permanent By-Laws for the organization. were adopted at last’ night’s meeting at Hennepey sehool in Grass Valley.made for 17 permanent who will be representative of the county. Forrest Airington, tementering the sewer _ financed without an increase in Twenty-two nominations were ;